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By giizii, September 20, 2009 4:14 pm

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This was announced just two weeks before the conference start by @bradneuberg. Microsoft is joining IBM as gold sponsor for the SVG Open 2009 – “SVG coming of ege.”, hosted by Google in Mountain View, California 2-4 October. Wow!, what a nice display of big players supporting the event.

What does this mean? Are we finally going to have SVG support for Internet Explorer, or at least they are thinking about it? Even if they decide to do so, what do you think, how long it will take to have IE8 patch released with native SVG support? If they plan to do this, wait is going to be worth while. We alrady have ways around to render SVG in IE thanks to SVG Web, still in alpha though, getting better and better, but native support is best, right?

Personally, I would really like to see Microsoft going in this direction. It is all surreal to me to be true. But hey, they adopted jQuery as JS Library for the new .Net platform, who knows, maybe this guys are really starting to open up. But, I’m not going to get excited unless I see some real signals this is going to happen. Still very sceptical.